ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,195, issued on April 29, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for introducing a bone anchor" was invented by Benjamin Arnold (San Diego), Eric Dasso (Carlsbad, Calif.), Justin Doose (San Diego), Richard Mueller (St. Charles, Ill.) and Robert German (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a guide assembly for introducing a bone anchor to an operative target site. The guide includes an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve. The outer sleeve has a distal anchor engaging end, a proximal end, and a central passage extending from the distal end to the proximal end. The inner sleeve ma...